NOTE SPOILER ALERT FOR SEASON 5 EPISODE 22 THE BEGINNING IN THE END

Disclaimer: As many of you know this challenge started out as a lead to the 100th episode, which has now come and gone and I am only at Theme 34 Stars. You might have noticed I never really stuck to the theme of each episode, just wrote a one-shot about what that theme meant to me. We are well past episode 100, however, that does not mean these suggestions should go to waste. So I will continue to go forward and float through Bones as I have in the past. I do apologize to NatesMama as I clearly didn't follow the challenge as she set out, but I do have to thank her for the great themes she provided and the fodder they continue to provide my mind. As usual I still don't own anything Bones except for the 206 in my own body.

Ch 34 Stars

He heard the knock and went to the door wondering who it could be. He had sent Parker on his way hours ago and wasn't expecting anyone else. They had had a goodbye party at the Founding Fathers earlier in the day so he had said good bye to all the squints and Bones, although he had told Bones he would call her later in the evening for one final goodbye. Opening the door he was surprised to see her. "Bones what are you doing here? Did you forget something?"

She looked at his face and suddenly wasn't so sure she should have come. Maybe he really didn't want her here, but she had found she needed to say her one last good bye in person. "Can I come in?" she asked him hesitantly.

He stepped back to allow her entrance "of course come in, did you eat yet I was just about to order pizza want some?"

"If it's ok with you Booth I'd love some. I found I needed to say my final goodbye to you in person. I hope that's ok. I know we said we'd do it over the phone, but I find I have some things I need to say that need to be said face to face."

"Ah sure Bones come on sit down. What do you need to say?" He turned to look at her and once again was not able to read that beautiful face. He thought he had seen every look she had over the last 5 years, but here was another look he had never seen.

"I have been thinking while I was making my final arrangements and there are some things I want you to know and based on those things there are some things I did this afternoon I want you to be aware of." She reached for his hand and taking a deep breath she began "I want you to know why I considered not going to Maluku and why I am still going."

"Bones I…" he tried to interrupt her afraid to hear her put her reasons into words.

"No Booth just listen please. At first I wanted to go for selfish reasons. I wanted to be the Anthropologist who made the new discoveries. I wanted to prove to myself I could live without you in my life. That I could return to the person I was 5 years ago before I ever met you. Then you decided to return to the military and I used it as a way to hide my feelings. You see if I go away then you aren't really leaving me. As the time for our departures got closer I began to panic and almost asked you not to go. To tell you if you stayed here so would I. But this afternoon at The Founding Fathers I saw that for what it was, another effort not to move forward. So this is what I want you to know. Why I am still going? First of all I am going because I am an Anthropologist and the work will be fulfilling while you are gone. You see I know you need to do this, it is important to you, you can save lives and make a difference. It is your Maluku Islands. Second and more important to us I think is the fact I am not going on this dig to run away from you or our feelings for each other. I will be gone for only one year no matter how much longer the dig takes." She watched him as the emotion he felt but she could not interpret rippled through his eyes changing their brown color like a rip tide. "You see I have come to a new understanding of myself. You talked about my teaching you about evolution and I realized I had forgotten if you evolved then so would I. You see I now know that you have become so much a part of me that I can't tell where I end and you begin, and I find it doesn't scare me as much as I thought it would. I find you are in a way the part of me that has been missing. It doesn't make me any less a person, it in fact extends me out further into the universe. So based on this new information I changed my will." Seeing he was about to interrupt again she held up a hand to stop him "I did it on my own, and I am not going to change my mind so you had better listen, oh and I have the copy you will need to get signed, notarized and returned to my attorney with me as well. You are my beneficiary, however I have left a trust for Russ' children and Parker. There are also some charities I fund which I would like you to continue as well. There is also a separate trust for each of Russ' children, with provisions should he and Amy have more, as well as one for Parker for college. These are separate from any monies that they would inherit. I do not plan on you inheriting any money anytime in the near future though." She laughed at his relived look. "So now that I have had my say it's your turn."

"Bones I don't know what to say? Can I do this?" he asked as he leaned over to kiss her lips gently.

She slid closer and returned his tender kiss with a little more heat. "Can I do this?" she asked as she slid closer and her tongue begged for entrance at his lips.

As he opened his lips to allow her access he begged for entrance to her mouth as well. Soon their tenderness gave way to passion and heat. As Booth slid his hand under her shirt he broke contact with her lips to ask one last time "are you sure this is what you want?"

She murmured back "I want this as much as you do" and she reached to pull up his t-shirt.

Their first time was exactly how he had told her it would be so long ago. He carried her into his bedroom and lay her gently on the bed. He gently removed each piece of clothing and kissed each bit of skin it had covered until she lay before him totally, gloriously, revealed.

Then it was her turn to gently kiss away his concerns and fears. She had seen him before so long ago but the memory paled compared to the beauty she saw now. She stored up every touch every movement he made to be played over and over again throughout the next year.

When he entered her for the first time they both sighed "home" they move together as if they had danced this dance forever and yet never. Each movement new and old as time. When they came together they felt their souls forge a new corporeal being one that was composed of equal parts of them.

Neither slept, they lay wrapped in each other's arms, and made love as the mood took them. He called her Baby, Baby all night long. She called him Baby, Baby all night long.

In the early morning they made one last promise before he left. He gave her his St. Christopher medal, she gave him the un-published copy of her next book complete with dedication ~To Seeley the real Andy~

OH how did stars fit into the story you ask? Well you see Bones didn't exactly get to stay in the Maluku Islands for the entire year. You see after she was there about three months she had a sat phone delivered to Booth along with directions to wait for her call at exactly 1AM on a Sunday morning. As they both looked up at the stars she told him her news. They argued about when she would return home and they finally agreed she would stay another three months. From that night on for the next six months every night they they would talk on the Daddy phone, as they called it, whenever possible. Until that last Sunday night, when under the Afghani stars, Booth heard the cry of Josephine Joy Booth as she entered the world.

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Is this how it happened? In my world yes! As for Booth's St. Christopher medal it was suggested by a writer she is wearing it in the scene at the air port. It looks like it could be. As for "he called me baby baby all night long?" Listen to the lyrics that are repeated at the end of the episode. I hope you liked this one.

Nyre

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